Curriculum Vitae
       
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Central Connecticut State University, History Department, Fall 2007
Instructor, University of Georgia, History Department, Fall 2005-Summer 2006; Summer 2007
       
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, Emory University, 2007
  Dissertation: Medieval Atrocities: Rage and Outrage in Anglo-Norman and Northern French
    Historical Narratives, c. 1000 - c. 1150
  Advisor: Stephen D. White
  Certificate in Medieval Studies
       
M.A., History, Emory University, 2005
       
B.A., History with Honors, University of Georgia, Summa cum Laude, 2002
  Honors Thesis: The Role of Philip IV of France in the Inquisitorial Trial of the Knights Templar
B.A., Political Science, University of Georgia, 2002
       
PUBLICATIONS
"The Politics of Chivalry: The Function of Anger and Shame in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman
  and Northern French Historical Narratives," In Feud, Violence, and Practice: Essays in Honor of
  Stephen D. White, eds. Belle Tuten and Tracey Billado (Ashgate, Forthcoming)
 
"English Jews as Outcasts or Outlaws: The Ritual Murder of Little St. Hugh of Lincoln in Matthew Paris's
  Chronica Majora," in Outlaws, Exiles, and Heroes: History and Literature through the Ages,
  ed. David Hepworth (Windbrook and Ashgate, Forthcoming).
 
"Urban Tourism;" "Crowds of Pilgrims;" and "Travel to Holy People" in Encyclopedia of Medieval
  Pilgrimage (Brill, Forthcoming).
 
"Royal Madness and the Law: The Role of Anger in Representations of Royal Authority in Eleventh- and
  Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Texts," in Medieval Madness and Law, ed. Wendy Turner
  (Brill, In preparation).
   
Review: "Cuffel, Alexandra. Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic. University of Notre Dame,
  2007." In Medieval Feminist Forum (In preparation).
 
CONFERENCE AND PAPER PRESENTATIONS
International Congress for Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2008
  Paper: Anglo-Norman Anger: Emotion, Honor, and Shame in the Historical Writings of Orderic
    Vitalis and William of Malmesbury
 
Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth State University, April 2008
  Paper: Restraining Royal Rage: Noble Counsel in Expressions of Royal Anger in
    Anglo-Norman Historical Narratives
 
June Baker Higgins Conference, Central Connecticut State University, 2008
  Chair: Gender, Power, Knowledge Session
 
International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 10-13, 2006
  Paper: Honestis pariunt lacrimas: The Function of Anger in Medieval Historical Narratives
       
International Congress for Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 4-7, 2006
  Paper: Ambitiosorum tumor: The Negotiation of Rage among Nobles in Orderic Vitalis'
    Historia ecclesiastica
      Abstract Printed by Haskins Society in Anglo-Norman Anonymous, vol. 25 (2007).
 
Medieval Studies Lecture Series, University of Georgia, March 6, 2006
  Invited Speaker: The Function of Anger in the Latin Crusade Accounts of the 1096 Rhineland Massacres
       
International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 11-14, 2005
  Paper: The Conceptions of Youth in English Ritual Murder Accusations
       
International Congress for Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 6-8, 2005
  Paper: Politics of Anger in the First Crusade Chronicles of Ekkehard of Aura and Albert of Aachen
       
Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, University of the South, April 8-9, 2005
  Paper: English Jews as Outlaws or Outcasts: The Ritual Murder of Little St. Hugh of Lincoln in
    Matthew Paris's Chronica Majora
       
George P. Cuttino Seminar, Emory University, December 3, 2004
  Invited Speaker: "He does not know how to spare his subjects": Anger and Outrage in Medieval Europe
       
Midwest Medieval History Conference, University of Tennessee, October 8-9, 2004
  Paper: The 1096 Massacres of Jews: Politics of Anger in Albert of Aachen and Ekkehard of Aura
       
Medieval Roundtable, Emory University, April 29, 2004 and March 6, 2007
   
TEACHING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE
Central Connecticut State University
  HIST 121: World Civilizations I
HIST 232: Medieval Europe
  HIST 341: Britain until 1715
  HIST 395: Women of Medieval Europe
  HIST 395: Medieval France
  SSCI 415: Social Studies Methods at Secondary Level (Assistant with Prof. Tully)
 
Emory University
  HIST 201: The Formation of European Society
  HIST 385: Anger and Love: Emotions in the Medieval West
       
University of Georgia
  HIST 3330: The Medieval World
  HIST 3332: Witches, Wenches, Damsels and Nuns: Women in the Medieval West
       
Emory College Online, Summer 2005
Emory's Center for Interactive Teaching, Summer 2003-Spring 2006
Teaching Assistant and Teacher Training Opportunities, Emory University, 2003; Summer 2006
       
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND HONORS
Research Reassigned Time, School of Arts and Sciences, CCSU, Fall 2008
Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor, Caltech, 2008 (Declined)
Dean's Teaching Fellowship, Emory University, 2006-2007
Fund for International Graduate Research, Emory University, Summer 2006
Research Grant, History Department, Emory University, Summer 2005; Summer 2006
Francis Benjamin Prize for Best Graduate Paper, History Department, Emory University, 2003
Doctoral Fellowship, Emory University, Fall 2002-Spring 2006
       
UNIVERSITY AND ACADEMIC SERVICE
Office of Field Experience Student Teaching Advisory Committee, CCSU, 2008
Secretary, History Department, CCSU, 2007-2008
Screening Committee for Social Studies Education Professional Program, CCSU, 2007-2008
Advisory Committee, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, CCSU, 2007-2008
SAP Writer for Social Studies, NCATE, CCSU, 2007-2008
Member, Professor Cohort for K-12 and SECED Professors, CCSU, 2007-2008
Executive Council of Graduate History Society, Emory University, 2004; 2005; 2006
Graduate Assistant, European Studies Project, Emory University, 2006
Graduate Student Council, History Department Represenative, 2005; 2006
Supplementary Textbook Material, Southern Editoral, 2006
  Brummett, et al, World Civilizations: Past and Present, 11th ed. (Longmans, 2005).
Indexer, 2004
  Stephen D. White, Rethinking Kingship and Feudalism (Ashgate, 2005).
  Idem, Feuding and Peacemaking in Eleventh-Century France (Ashgate, 2005).
Graduate Assistant, 2004
  Marina Rustow and Stephen D. White
 
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Medieval Academy of America

Institute for Historical Research
International Center for Medieval Art
American Historical Association
Charles Homer Haskings Society of Anglo-Norman Studies
Medieval Feminist Forum